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Alone in Berlin

20161h 43mWar · Thriller · Drama
directed by Vincent Perez

“The truth was their resistance.”

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6.7 / 10
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6.5 / 10
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52 / 100
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Synopsis

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

Cast

Emma Thompson·Anna Quangel
Brendan Gleeson·Otto Quangel
Daniel Brühl·Escherich
Mikael Persbrandt·Prall
Katharina Schüttler·Claire Gehrich
Louis Hofmann·Hans Quangel
Rafael Gareisen·Herbert Wegner
Hildegard Schroedter·Ida Kuhn
Ernst Stötzner·Dptm. Head Walter
Godehard Giese·Colonel Krüger